by DavidFraser | Jul 13, 2015 | Leadership, Relationship Skills, Sales
It depends, of course… …on the situation, our formal role within it (if any), our personal power or authority in the specific circumstances, the personalities of other people involved, and what we want or need to achieve. If our aim is to make a difference...
by DavidFraser | Dec 17, 2014 | Leadership, Personal Mastery
You created everything around you. (You are the person with authority and influence, after all.) If you don’t like it, either you’ve not led very well, or you’re not actually the leader. Which is it?
by DavidFraser | Nov 10, 2014 | Relationship Skills
Events of last week—featuring, in particular, some troubles my son is having with another boy on his school bus—showed just how important it is to discern accurately who is best-placed to take which action: Us as parents, the bus driver, the parents of the other boy,...
by DavidFraser | May 26, 2014 | Leadership, Relationship Skills
There something appealing about a person who is clear about what they’re good at and what they’re not so good at. For example… Watching a film of David Ogilvy, sometimes referred to as “the Father of Advertising,” it’s striking how...
by DavidFraser | Apr 25, 2014 | Change, Leadership
How much knowledge do you need to have before it feels OK to say you don’t know? Seems like a paradox, doesn’t it? If we know quite a bit about something, we probably have a good idea just how much we don’t know. And we have some authority. If we don’t know that much,...
